Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in the 89 years of Hasty Pudding productions Victroia records have been made of some of the tunes from the annual show. From the 1935 play "Foemen of the Yard" two songs, "Imagination" and "Let's Add Up the Score" have been recorded and will be on sale this evening in time for the special Graduates' performance...
...Sale of his Congressional West Point appointment for $1,000 was the rare charge on which a special Washington grand jury last week indicted California's loud Representative John Henry ("Colonel Hoopla") Hoeppel, with his son Charles Jerome. Representative Hoeppel's first appointee to the West Point vacancy was son Charles Jerome, who quickly flunked out. Then, according to the Government, Father & Son Hoeppel sold the appointment to one James W. Ives of Baltimore for his son. Mr. Ives gave Son Hoeppel a promissory note for $1,000, found the appointment illegal, notified the War Department...
...terms of sale were initialed in Tokyo last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev and a General Ting, so-called Minister from so-called Manchukuo. Actually the real buyer was Japan through her shrewd Foreign Minister Koki Hirota at whose home the initialing took place...
...either of these measures, concern for government credit is undoubtedly the dominant one. Either the Patman bill, which proposes immediate payment of the 2 billion dollar bonus (due years hence) by resorting to the printing-press or the Vinson bill which proposes to raise the amount by the sale of bonds, would shatter government credit. Any government which played the bonus now would rightly be considered totally irresponsible by investors, and would have difficulty borrowing money anywhere. Yet gigantic borrowing operations for legitimate purposes are absolutely indispensable to the government as it is now being administered...
...Norman of Mr. Cummings' old firm, and other Baush attorneys, once again sought to prove two stock charges: 1) that Aluminum tried to monopolize interstate trade in virgin aluminum through a price agreement with foreign importers of the metal; 2) that by taking enormous profits from the sale of raw aluminum it was able to undersell competitors on fabricated aluminum products. Forced to pay Aluminum's price for virgin ingots on the one hand and to compete with it in finished products on the other, Baush was caught in a "squeeze" which, according to counsel, had cost...